One of the challenges in PM roles is how to find time for long-term, valuable work items. If you don’t exert control on the calendar, one tends to get sucked into a barrage of urgent items that needs our attention but doesn’t result in long-term value. One senior PM at…

I landed upon Design Thinking frameworks a bit late in my career when I was at Kellogg School of Management and attending “Design for Delight” session by Intuit PMs. I found it extremely powerful for product managers. From then on at Kellogg, I attended multiple courses and workshops to get…

To lead the product team effectively, Product Managers must have influence and credibility with engineers. Agreed that good technical knowledge/aptitude isn’t the only factor in a good working relationship with engineers, it’s a big factor. That’s why many tech firms conducts technical interviews as part of the PM hiring process. …

The sole purpose of the Product Requirement Document (PRD) is to build a shared understanding of what to build. It’s written agreement between PM, engineering, and UX that serves following purpose: Offers a forum to reach shared understanding, and once finalized it serves as a source of truth to refer…

This movie holds a special place in my life. It was the first movie my girlfriend and I watched 6 years back, and we had a big (and first) disagreement over the core message of the movie. In plain terms, this movie preaches living in the present. Diya (Katrina Kaif)…

Every team I’ve worked with has grappled with the challenge of limited resources. In my previous life, when I was in a startup I used to think that resourced constraints will not be there in big tech firms. Turns out, it’s even a bigger problem. …